Evaluation of an ultrasensitive p24 antigen assay as a potential alternative to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA viral load assay in resource-limited settings

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 506-508

  Respess, Richard A ^a,d   Cachafeiro, Ada ^b   Withum, David ^a   Fiscus, Susan A ^b   Newman, Daniel ^a   Branson, Bernard ^a   Varnier, Oliviero E ^c   Lewis, Kim ^a   Dondero, Timothy J ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; COLORIMETRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; HIV CORE PROTEIN P24; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 11844299060     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.506-508.2005     Document Type: Article

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